All of us have heard this term ‘preventive war’ since the earliest days of Hitler. I don’t believe there is such a thing; and, frankly, I wouldn’t even listen to anyone seriously that came in and talked about such a thing.
– Dwight Eisenhower – Source: Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman, Bush and America’s Willing Executioners would be Guilty at Nuremberg, The Free Press (Columbus, Ohio), 3/2/03

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The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them.
– Albert Einstein – Source: letter to Sigmund Freud, 30 July 1932

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A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reforms. It does not haggle over expenditures for armaments and military equipment. It pays without discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an excellent thing for the syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic terrors are an abundant source of gain.
– Anatole France, pseudonym for Jacques Anatole Thibault (1844-1924)

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